Parenting Styles - Adolescent Bullying & Victimization
That's quite a title! But here are the results from the study I referred to the other day about parenting's relationship to bullying—both bully and victim. First of all this was from a thesis by UVic student Alison Read. The survey of 664 adolescents between the ages of 12 and 19 was called the Healthy Youth Survey.
What I found interesting is that the researcher spoke of three parenting behaviours: parental psychological control, parental support and parental monitoring.
The first refers to parents being controlling in psychological ways—restricting autonomy, withdrawal of love or affection, manipulation of thoughts and feelings. These are points that have been made in my discussions on not allowing the youth to have certain risk in their lives.
The other two behaviours relate to the affection and support the parent has for their teen and how much they know about where the child is and who he/she is hanging out with. Both of these for me relate to how open the relationship and communication is between the parent and the youth. I would say that from the survey the monitoring is not of an intrusive sort but merely having a good idea of the youth's whereabouts.
The survey found that there is a direct corelation between higher levels of parental psychological control and higher levels of youth bullying and victimization. There was even a reference to the fact that this relationship is pronounced with fathers.
Both from the parents who model more supportive and/or monitoring behaviours with their teens the adolescent is less likely to be a victim or a bully.
From my experience in schools, I can see that where there have been victims of bullying the parents seem to have been more controlling and over-involved. When I mentioned moderation with the monitoring behaviour, I see that if it becomes intrusive that is a tendency to over-controlling and the child may end up either lying to the parent or become overly dependent on the parent which may lead to consequences that this study supports.
posted by Paul Abra @ 10:10 AM
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